Is A Shot in the Dark actually good?

A Shot in the Dark sits in the 88.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.0% of them.

How does A Shot in the Dark compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, A Shot in the Dark lands in the 83.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is A Shot in the Dark's score based on?

166 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Shot in the Dark's score.

1964

global pct

88.0

Film · 1964 · Films · 1960s

A Shot in the Dark

Name: A Shot in the Dark
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1964

Scored from 166 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

88.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

97.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

166 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of a chauffeur at a wealthy Parisian estate, where the prime suspect is beautiful parlor maid Maria Gambrelli, found clutching the murder weapon. Convinced of her innocence despite mounting evidence, the bumbling Clouseau drives his superior Commissioner Dreyfus to the brink of madness as more bodies pile up around her.

Released in 1964, A Shot in the Dark is a comedy, crime and mystery film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 166 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 166 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.

Is A Shot in the Dark (1964) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 166
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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